I've been reading since I was knee-high to a gnat. My mother taught me, the way she taught me all the good things in life. She read to me when I was little and then she bought me books of my own. Little Women, What Katy Did and Anne of Green Gables. I read them all until the covers fell off.

It was a habit I passed on to my own...more »

I've been reading since I was knee-high to a gnat. My mother taught me, the way she taught me all the good things in life. She read to me when I was little and then she bought me books of my own. Little Women, What Katy Did and Anne of Green Gables. I read them all until the covers fell off.

It was a habit I passed on to my own children. You want kids to read? You have to read to them, pass on the joy, not just when they're little and can't do it for themselves. Dad reading Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes was a Sunday morning family treat when I made tea and toast and we all piled into the big bed and laughed .like idiots.

I started writing when my children were small and my engineer husband was working abroad. We'd met working in Africa and had travelled the world together before settling down to raise our family.

My first romance was set in Kenya, in a place I knew well, and was plucked from the slush pile because the feisty feminist heroine made my editor laugh. Emotion touched with humor has been the hallmark of my books ever since. Since then I've written around fifty books, won two RITAs, the Romantic Novelists' Association Romance Prize and been named Romantic Times Reviewers Choice.

I live in Wales where the landscape is magical, with soft, misty hills, sudden rocky outcrops and crumbling castles. Carmarthenshire is the land of Merlin and, according to legend, half a mile from our home King Arthur and his knights are sleeping in a cave, waiting for a bell to be rung to summon them to action. It's nice to know that help is so close at hand should we ever need it

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